Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

1 What does the word "mire" most closely mean?
Ocean

Muck

Center

Tower
2 Who is Hades?
The Greek god of the underworld

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

An Egyptian pharaoh
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?
Quintains

Sestets

Octaves

Tercets
4 What does the word "begot" most closely mean?
Understood

Created

Tricked

Possessed
5 What is the poem's form?
Sonnet

It does not follow a traditional form

Villanelle

Sestina
6 Which type of meter are most of the poem's lines written in?
Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic trimeter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Animal-like and instinctive

Very large

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Extremely human-like
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Trochaic trimeter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world

A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century

An implement used in sewing and weaving

A multi-story Ottoman mansion
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Tent

Night

Ghost

Curtain
11 What does the word "singe" most closely mean?
Opera

Clean

Burn

Monkey
12 Which objects are personified in this work?
The marbles

The bobbin

The moon

The domes
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Rivers to the underworld

Narrow alleyways

Metal forgeries

Members of the royal court
14 What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
ABBACDDC

ABABCBCDC

AABBCDDC

ABABCDCD
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic pentameter
16 The line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow" contains an instance of what?
Simile

Metaphor

Metonymy

Personification
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?
Blink

Equivocate

Hide

Dart
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?
Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Dactylic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?
A type of Byzantine church

A wormlike creature from Greek myth

A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?
"cannot singe a sleeve"

"Night resonance recedes"

"moonlit dome disdains"

"mire or blood"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?
It is a conflict between the Emperor and his soldiery on the one hand, and everyday citizens on the other

It is a conflict between the speaker and the shade

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires

It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?
Easter Orthodox theology

Ottoman history

Greek myth

Celtic legend
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?
trance

singe

bough

none of these are onomatopoetic
24 The phrase "mire and blood" is a synecdoche representing what?
The spiritual world

Family

The physical world

War
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
3

2

4

5

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